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Welcome to Frenchtown Walking Tours!

Each tour covers about half a mile and takes one or two hours depending on how much I remember that day.
Tours cost $15 each and you have to register at rickepstein@yahoo.com so I know to show up.
Tour Schedule for 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2 p.m. Upper Cemetery Tour
Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m. Downtown Tour 
Saturday, May 4
, 2 p.m. Lower Cemetery Tour
Saturday, May 11, 2 p.m. Bad Luck & Poor           Choices Tour

Sunday, May 26, 2 p.m. Downtown Tour
Saturday, June 8, 10 a.m. Upper Cemetery Tour
Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. Lower Cemetery Tour
Saturday, June 29, 10 a.m. Bad Luck & Poor Choices Tour

More tours will be scheduled for 2024 on through October.

--If you want to arrange a special group tour for four or more people, send me an email and we'll set it up.

--The tour is free for anyone 18 or younger. 

--Dogs are delightful creatures, especially yours, but please don't bring 'em.
--Gift cards are available.

For information about my book "Frenchtown; Fires, Floods, Fads, and Felonies"
please write to RickEpstein@yahoo.com.




 
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I came to Frenchtown in 1977 to become editor of the Delaware Valley News. If I'd known I'd be the official borough historian 44 years later, I'd have come here sooner and taken better notes. Lesson learned. 

                   -- Rick Epstein

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Five ways to savor
Frenchtown history!

DOWNTOWN TOUR -- covers the Great Fire of 1878, the rise of the Odd Fellows, the oldest house in town, the silent-movie theater, and how Frenchtown got its name.

UPTOWN TOUR -- Doc Mullins' hospital, the doll carriage factory, Frenchtown High School and the Original Terrier, the Doughboy statue, the Barn Theater, and love in 1942. 

CEMETERY TOURS -- facts and true stories about Frenchtown people enshrined there. 

Lower Cemetery Tour -- It's mostly about people from the 1800s, like Civil War hero Capt. Slater, the prankish T. Powers Williams, and Charlie Slack, who hanged Jeff Davis in effigy.

Upper Cemetery Tour -- It's mostly about people from the 1900s, like the murderous Amos Hart; Frank Barrett, who worked one day a year; and  Clarence Doan, the unluckiest man in Frenchtown history.

BAD LUCK & POOR CHOICES TOUR -- the boiler explosion of 1879, the banker who was too smart for his own good (1926), death by lightning (1888), gunfire in the drug store (1939), and why Aaron Burr never slept here (1806). 

Rick's Frenchtown history blog

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